Chaparral High principal highlights AP, CTE, arts and athletics in Scottsdale Unified presentation
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Principal Joshua Pan Tier said Chaparral High administers more than 1,200 AP exams to 600+ students, offers 23 AP courses and 31 dual-enrollment classes, and fields a broad athletics and award-winning performing-arts program that draws open-enrollment students.
Joshua Pan Tier, principal of Chaparral High School, presented an overview of the school's academic and extracurricular programs to the Scottsdale Unified School District. He said the school administers "over 1,200 AP exams to over 600 students," offers 23 Advanced Placement courses and 31 dual-enrollment classes, and runs a range of career and technical education programs.
Pan Tier described Chaparral's career and technical education offerings as including culinary and criminal justice as the "most notable" programs, with business, engineering and sports medicine also available. He framed these programs as part of the school's strategy to provide multiple career pathways alongside traditional academics.
On athletics, Pan Tier said Chaparral competes in the 5A conference and "offer[s] pretty much every sport that's offered by the AIA," adding the school recently added girls flag football. He presented athletics as a broad-based program available to most students.
Pan Tier also emphasized the strength of Chaparral's performing arts. "Theater puts on 3 big shows a year," he said, and noted that last year the program had "the most nominations of any high school for the state awards at Gammage." He used that recognition to underscore the school's statewide reputation in the arts.
Pan Tier gave enrollment and community context: Chaparral has roughly 1,700 students, about 70 clubs, and a long history in the community (about 53 years), which he said contributes to multigenerational ties between parents and current students. He said the school attracts a "significant amount of open enrolled students" from nearby districts and that "any student can apply to enroll at Chaparral."
The remarks presented Chaparral as a school combining college-level coursework, vocational pathways, strong arts and athletics, and community continuity. No formal actions, motions or votes were recorded in the transcript of the presentation; Pan Tier's talk concluded with an endorsement of the school as a place "where kids like coming to school, and it's a school where teachers like teaching."